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Many organizations have made migrating analytics to the cloud a corporate imperative. Object storage is a key business driver for cloud migration, providing a cost-effective repository for data and rapid scaling when those data volumes grow. New forms of cloud architecture isolate workloads and support multitenancy across teams and projects. It frees analytics teams to run traditional Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting workloads independent of data science projects or data loads. The teams can all leverage the same source data without competing for CPU and memory resources.
However, migrating all your data to the cloud carries a lot of risks. There may be unintended costs and complexities, and businesses often decide that certain data is too mission-critical or too private to place on a public cloud.
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ECS is the leading object storage platform from Dell Technologies, with unmatched scalability, performance, resilience, and economics[1]. ECS delivers rich S3-compatibility on a globally distributed architecture, empowering organizations to support enterprise workloads such as cloud-native, archive, IoT, AI, and big data analytics applications at scale.
As the pioneer of Multi-Cloud Data Services (MCDS), Faction offers the only data-first architecture for simultaneously presenting a single copy of data to your choice of applications and cloud services. Faction Cloud Control Volumes (CCV) offers highly scalable, cloud-adjacent storage that leverages low-latency, high throughput network connections to multiple clouds, using a proprietary network fabric called the Faction Internetwork eXchange (FIX). Faction MCDS deliver the agility, performance, scalability, security, and data sovereignty necessary to realize the promise of data-driven transformation.
Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies.
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